10/08/2015

Three decades on, UWM’s LGBT Film Festival focuses on families in flux

Matthew Reddin

October 8, 2015

Wisconsin Gazette

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The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary and festival director Carl Bogner is looking forward to the biggest program in recent memory. Over 11 days, he and UWM’s Peck School of the Arts will bring more than 30 feature films and shorts programs to the city, all centering around LGBT themes — but many not defined exclusively by those themes.
Bogner hasn’t been involved with the festival for all three decades — 2015 marks his 17th year — but in his time, he says, LGBT filmmaking has come leaps and bounds, and that’s reflected in this year’s work.

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